Renaming partitions on XP.

Well what do you mean by this?

Like you want to swap drive letters? or you want to literally rename it from Local Disk to something else?

Right click "My computer". Select "Manage"

In the Computer management, chose "Disk management". It is located under Storage

Right click on the drive you want to change, and select "Change drive letter and paths". Change the letter.

BUT:

1) You cannot change the drive letter of your boot drive

2) Changing the drive letter on the D: probably will break all programs on that. since icons, and registry entries will point to the old drive.

It is relatively safe to change the letter on DVD drives, and empty hard disk drives. Also if you D: drive only holds music, movies and documents, it should be doable. But any programs should be uninstalled first, and then reinstalled after the change.

Best advise, don't do it unless you have very compelling reasons to do so.

Ohh forgot - the SUBST command will allow you to access your drive under another name. But it won't change it.

Example: c:\>subst U: C:\

Would give you an U: drive that is really just the C: drive.

Thanks for your time! But that answer is completely wrong! Would anybody else care to assist me in my problem!? ^_^Rain_of_Miami

he's not completely wrong, you are. You said drive name which you do as was described. You want to change a drive letter and that is completely different.

plus, why would you want to change the drive letter from c? thats not even possible if you are booting from it.

Oh my gosh! It won't let me change the name of the C drive!Rain_of_Miami

sure u can change the name (just highlight it and press F2) but u cannot change the letter C tho

• first, how many hard drives do u have?
• if u have one hard drive, u can use windows disk management to resize ur partitions (windows vista only)
• if u have two hard drives [C] and [D] - ur gonna have to upgrade ur second hard drive [D] if u want to store more data. if u don't wanna upgrade, ur gonna have to delete some files in order to make more room.
• if u r not running vista, ur gonna have to get a third party software to partion ur hard drive
• or u can always buy external hard drives